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| Prime
Minister Nguyen Tan Dung (right) and Cambodian counterpart Samdech Hun
Sen attend the inauguration ceremony of Cho Ray-Phnom Penh Hospital in
Phnom Penh yesterday. |
PM praises Cambodian government
VietNamNet
Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung yesterday (Jan 13) expressed
confidence that Cambodia will become a prosperous nation enjoying higher
stature in the region and beyond.
VietnamNet | 14 Jan. 2014
In talks held
with his counterpart Hun Sen in Phnom Penh, Dung congratulated the
Cambodian Government led by his host for significant achievements
recorded since the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime was toppled 35 years ago
with Vietnamese help.
The Vietnamese leader also hailed the
decision to send a delegation led by Cambodian National Assembly
Chairman Heng Samrin to Viet Nam to attend the ceremony commemorating
the 35th anniversary of the victory in the southwest border defence war
and the joint victory of Viet Nam and Cambodia over the genocidal regime
(January 7).
Discussing ways to further advance the
bilateral partnership between the two neighbouring nations, Dung and Hun
Sen expressed their determination to raise two-way trade to US$5
billion by 2015.
They noted with pleasure the growth in
all-around bilateral cooperation in recent years and pledged further
support for Vietnamese firms to do long-term business in Cambodia.
Earlier, the same day, the two prime ministers co-chaired the 4th Viet Nam-Cambodia Investment Cooperation Conference.
Dung
said the Vietnamese Government would continue to create favourable
conditions for Cambodian enterprises to invest and do business in Viet
Nam.
Highlighting the connectivity potential and opportunities
shared by the two countries, he said the Vietnamese Government has
issued a number of policies supporting enterprises operating in both
countries, including tariff cuts and land rent reductions.
Dung
suggested that relevant agencies of both sides work together to put the
Viet Nam-Cambodia Investment Encouragement and Protection Agreement into
force soon.
In particular, the two sides should work for the
early signing of a double taxation avoidance agreement and the upgrading
of a co-operation deal on rubber plantations, he said.
Dung also
stressed the importance of trade promotion to allow enterprises to
establish new partnerships in areas of great promise including finance,
agricultural product processing, forestry (especially rubber planting)
and distribution channels for major products.
Hun Sen said the
strong cooperation between the two countries within the sub-regional and
regional framework has optimised advantages and potentials for
enterprises.
Cambodia's abundant source of produce can create
win-win situations for the nation's farmers as well as Vietnamese
agricultural produce processors, he said.
Cambodia always backs
all Viet Nam-funded projects in the country, Hun said stressed, adding
that the country would make more efforts to improve its investment
environment and maintain Vietnamese investors' confidence.
Tran
Bac Ha, President of the Association of Vietnamese Investors in
Cambodia, noted that in 2013, Viet Nam's registered investment in
Cambodia totalled $3 billion, with 127 projects, a six-fold increase in
the total investment and over three times the number of projects before
2010.
He said Viet Nam was now the fifth largest foreign investor
in Cambodia, with projects in agro-forestry, aquaculture, energy,
finance, banking, insurance, telecommunications and aviation helping
spur the neighboring nation's economic development.
Two-way trade between the two countries has also registered an average annual increase of 30 per cent, Ha said.
Viet Nam's major exports to Cambodia include fuel and steel, while it buys rubber latex, wood and wooden products.
Conference
delegates urged the two Governments to reach a consensus on ways to
boost long-term economic co-operation, while issuing specific policies
for projects along their common border to ensure security.
They
also spoke of the necessity to build an information portal between the
two Governments to provide businesses with updated information on
policies.
Dung and Hun Sen later witnessed the granting of a
investment licence for Vietnam Dairy Products JSC (Vinamilk) to build a
$23 million factory in Cambodia.
They also witnessed the signing
of an agreement between the Bank for Investment and Development of Viet
Nam and Cambodia's Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport to provide 50
scholarships for Cambodian students to study in Viet Nam.
Healthcare
Also
yesterday, Prime Minister Dung called on Vietnamese localities,
businesses and hospitals to invest in Cambodia's healthcare sector.
He
made the appeal when speaking at the inaugural ceremony of the Cho
Ray-Phnom Penh General Hospital in the Cambodian capital, the first
co-operative healthcare venture between the two countries.
Dung
said he valued the close collaboration between municipal leaders of HCM
City and Phnom Penh evidenced in establishing the new hospital as well
as efforts made by the Association of Vietnamese Investors in Cambodia,
the Bank of Investment and Development of Viet Nam and the Bank for
Investment and Development of Cambodia in funding it.
Cambodian
PM Hun Sen expressed confidence the hospital would provide high quality
healthcare to Cambodians and become a prestigious facility in the
country, also providing a platform for medical professionals of both
countries to share their experience and expertise.
Construction
of the hospital began in May 2010 with a total investment of around $40
million. The hospital now has 200 beds, which will increase to 300 in
the second phase.
The hospital is expected to help ease
overcrowding in other Cambodian hospitals and meet increasing demand for
quality healthcare services in Phnom Penh and neighbouring areas.
Didn't North Vietnam help start-up Khmer Rouge and with the help of Vietcong after the Vietnam war they help to win of the democrate and patrioatic Lieutenant General Lon Nol whom battle Vietnamese 1st wave of Vietnamese invasaion and illegal Vietcong soldiers, but failed after Vietnam attempt to strengthen Communism Khmer Rouge, then Pol Pot realised he has been played by Vietnam but was too latest as Vietnamese embeded the Vietcong sub-ordinate under Khmer Rouge leaders to Killed the Khmer population and make it look like Khmer Killed Khmer when it is not...! When Pol Pot found out that was the case it was too late as social media and internet did not exist then real informations limited then Vietnam form the Khmer Vietming the second wave of Khmer Rouge mark 2 to invade Cambodia January the 7 to make it look like it deliberating Cambodia when infact it aim to replace Pol Pot with Hun Sen, to continue on the Killing of Khmer in K5 and sub-sequent for the last 30 years Vietnam so call friends and neighour has been sucking resources and Cambodias wealth and national treasure to fuel their own economy take the last switch during the burning of the Thai embassy...that they switch the trade provider from Thailand to Vietnam and all along it "cook" by Vietnam help by Hun Sen until today... So why is it we Khmer dislike Vietnam as a country so much. We Khmer or Cambodian never have any ambission to exploit Youn or Vietnamese unlike Vietnam does to Cambodian People in do so they are slowly killing Khmer people and the trend continue as they Vietnam establised their businesses help by the million of un-check illegal Vietnamese immigrants in Cambodia and they carry 2 passport with 2 names one Vietnamese and Cambodian. This is why Hun Sen is consider such a traitor as he never serve the interest of Khmer citizen under the consitution beside caring for himself and his families.
ReplyDeleteAs for the Vietnamese in Cambodia unlike the Chinese who recognise Cambodia is a country that it have made and improve in living conditions. The Vietnamese in Cambodia are like a virus that crumble the Cambodian societies if left un-check and with-out actions...sometime China (Chen) should have taken 100% control over Cambodia in 2014 should have take full control for at least they are a better friends than the Vietnamese (Youn) as the Chinese now have the technology, the money (economy) and the know-how now compare to how they were in the 60's & 70's as the US is slow to act to make Cambodia a more democratic place with a democratic leaders.
Will the people access the hospital for treatment free? because even in today technology compliment with regular power outage and block sewage systems it hard to build a roof with out first lay down a proper foundation...and that lead to $80 a month wages is this enough to cover for basic health care...i like to see how ah Hun Sen do it if he earn $80 a month....
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